War Quotes

"War teaches us the value of peace through bitter experience."

"War reveals both humanity's worst nature and unexpected nobility."

"Wars are fought by young men for the ambitions of old men."

"War reveals both the worst and occasionally the noblest in human nature."

"Standing armies can never consist of resolute, robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions."

"The greatest warfare is against one's own nature."

"The spider and the bee were the chief personages in this war."

"War is the failure of human reason."

"War begets only suffering and loss."

"War is the enemy of all that is good."

"The greatest war is the one fought within ourselves."

"War is the failure of humanity."

"War between lovers causes more devastation than any battle waged with swords."

"War is the business of barbarians."

"War is hell, and those who start it should think carefully."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform."

"War reveals both the worst and best of human nature simultaneously."

"War begets only more war; peace requires courage."

"War plants the seeds of its own destruction."

"The world will never be long without some fellow who will plunge the world into war."

"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."

"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."

"War is the failure of civilization."

"War is the death of all human progress and dignity."

"In love and war, all stratagems are permitted."

"The art of political lying is perhaps brought to as great perfection in our age as the world has ever seen."

"Party hatred by degrees works itself into a kind of religion."

"War is the failure of human reason and compassion."

"Wars are won by those with the strongest convictions."

"War is the failure of all other languages."